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Yes, of course. The point is just that a learning system can learn a language by example without any prior linguistic coding.
No it can't - those recognition programs contain linguistic coding - that it compares those images to until a match is found - or best estimate.
Improvement is a subjective term. If a mutation allows bacteria to better survive antibiotics, it's not an improvement from our point of view, but if the bacteria had a point of view, it would disagree; if a mutation makes a yeast help brew a better flavoured beer, its debatable whether that's an improvement for either the yeast or us; brewers & beer drinkers might say so, and the yeast would be bred in huge numbers but most would be killed afterwards - swings & roundabouts.
If a mutation in a plant makes its flower more visible or attractive to a pollinating insect, or a mutation in the insect makes it better at recognising the flower, or stronger in competition with mates, or able to hide better from predators, it can be viewed as an improvement for the mutated organism.
Nobody is saying that mutations are necessarily advantageous; current opinion is that of mutations in a population, the vast majority are neutral; of the remainder, most are maladaptive, and only a few are advantageous - but those few can and do make a difference where reproductive advantage is involved. There are also quite a few that work both ways - disadvantageous in some conditions and advantageous in others (e.g. thalassemia, heterozygous sickle-cell trait, etc).
None of them are advantageous - a mutation to your eye will NEVER be passed on to your offspring, because it did not occur in the reproductive genomes. And any mutation that occurs in the reproductive genomes will be useless to the current host. So the ideas of mutations adding cumulative over successive generations is a straight out fantasy. The problem is that biologists now consider any permanent change to the genome from previously a mutation - even if that change is the result of ordinary dominant and recessive genes.
That's just it. You will harp on mutations as the cause of variation - while ignoring the observational evidence. Because you can't fit your theory to the observational evidence. Despite your claims of mutation E coli in the lab remained exactly what they started as - E coli and will forever remain E coli - because they receive no genomes from another infraspecific taxa within the bacterium species to which they belong.
http://www.christianforums.com/thre...an-evolutionist.7916357/page-15#post-68891501
All that has occurred is that dominant and recessive genes have become dominant or recessive. Mutation adds NO new information but what already existed. It may be written in a different format - but nothing new was added that did not already exist, or would not have come about naturally over time.
In every single experiment with actual breeding animals and plants with mutation - your theory has been falsified.
http://www.weloennig.de/Loennig-Long-Version-of-Law-of-Recurrent-Variation.pdf
Mutation soon reaches a limit after which no knew forms are EVER produced. But you ignore 70+ years in plant and animal husbandry too, the only place mutation has been stidied with actual breeding animals and plants.
Mutations are DAMAGE - ERRORS in the code and nothing more. Yes - I am also not arguing mutation does not once in a blue moon accidentally help an organism - but again - as has been shown in plant and animal husbandry - that small benefit is usually outweighed by the damage it causes to the organism in other ways.
No, you confuse me with someone else - I truly do accept mutations - I just accept what they really are.
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